Palisades Park monument to 'comfort women' stirs support, anger

[no_hypocrisy]

The stone with the copper plaque in front of the Palisades Park library is only a few feet tall, but its dedication to the “comfort women” — Asians reportedly forced into sexual slavery before and during World War II — is gaining widespread attention.

Lobbying efforts have even reached the White House in the form of petitions created on its “We the People” website.

One of those petitions, asking President Obama to remove the monument, has gained so much momentum that after about two months on the site, there are more than 32,000 signatures — meeting the threshold of 25,000 signatures within 30 days that merit an official response.

There is also a petition asking the president to preserve the monument as a “symbol of the bloody history of Korea.” That has gathered 4,270 signatures.

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http://www.northjersey.com/community/at_the_library/news/Palisades_Park_monument_to_comfort_women_stirs_support_anger.html

[rfranklin]

1. Yep, those Japanese Zeros were tricked into bombing Pearl Harbor...

and Bataan Death March was just a Boy Scout Jamboree.

[AnOhioan]

3. Photo of momument

It has been in place for over a year and half now

[obamanut2012]

4. If you haven't, read Iris Chang's "Rape of Nanking"

The plight of the Korean "Comfort Women" is also discussed in this excellent book.

Japan has never formally apologized to either China nor Korea for the atrocities it committed prior to and during WW II. They also only vaguely teach it in school, focusing more on the atomic bombs dropped on Japan (which is another thread).

I Googled, and this area of NJ has a rather large Japanese (NOT Japanese-American population).

[The Wizard]

5. Palisades Park

has a large Korean population. Seoul on the Hudson.

[GP6971]

6. 52% Korean. n/t